Discuss the influences of Greek architecture and sculpture on the Roman arts. Compare and contrast several works from both Greece and Rome, emphasizing cultural reasons for the differences in both form and content

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Responses will vary depending on artwork selection. Greek architecture and sculpture had an enormous influence on the later civilizations of Rome. Greek painting, architecture, and sculpture were discussed as techne, meaning "things requiring a special body of knowledge and skill to make." The skillful accomplishments in Greek arts and architecture were benchmarks of quality, and subsequent cultures copied and carried forward their classical styles.

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